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P.I. Writers who Have Contributed to the Canon

Since his creation back in the thirties, Batman has had an immense and undeniable impact on not just crime fiction but on our culture itself, influencing and appearing in films, radio and television, graphic novels, cartoons, comic strips, videogames and of course comic books.

Here’s just a small sampling of crime and detective writers, many of them favourites of this site, and other, perhaps surprising, writers who have penned tales of the Dark Knight.

AND FOR TRUE BAT-BELIEVERS

Block, Lawrence, “Batman’s Helpers” (1990, Justice for Hire) | Kindle it!This short story isn’t really a Batman story, but the Caped Crusader might well have given a big thumbs up to Block’s New York City private eye Matt Scudder, as he works a case of copyright violation.